Gary Davis wrote:
You're not talking about this one are you?

No, that is the yin yang symbol

photoguy42 wrote:
Did you try a google search for it? (and be specific)

And any mention of chinese characters reminds me of this.

http://alienlovespredator.com/index.php?id=28

I have spent hours on google in both the web link and image searches. I want this for a tattoo.

Glamour Boulevard wrote:
No, that is the yin yang symbol

Well, at least we got that one out of the way, only about 50,000 left...

Craig Thomson wrote:
Send an email to UdoR and ask him. He's an intelligent man with worldly knowledge, I myself would ask him.

Or Aesa...  She seems to have more than the average amount of knowledge about Kanji symbols...

Mandie wrote:
Or Aesa...  She seems to have more than the average amount of knowledge about Kanji symbols...

I would ask her but she is about to catch a plane.

Brian Diaz wrote:


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No, that is more like the brush written style of Kanji, although that IS one of the symbols for good and evil. The one I saw was more of a block character style.

Glamour Boulevard wrote:
I think an easier way to explain it is, have you ever seen that square edge zig zag like border on egyption or roman designs? It is something like a section of that turned into a mirror image of itself.

the Character itself will always be the same.  The way it is written is simply a font.  It can be artistic or block like you stated before.

There are at least 30,000 Kanji.  The problem you are going to encounter is that the symbols themselves often look almost the same.

but, Japanese and Chinese read them a little differently and they don't exactly translate the same between the two languages.  You would do best to ask someone who is Japanese or Chinese.  Another problem is that there are often 5-6 kanji that mean the same thing - or 1 kanji that can mean 5 or 6 things depending on how it was used.

If the 2 kanji that were written above are correct (or if one of them are correct) then you are almost there.....and, it should be easier for someone who knows kanji to help you out.

Ian

p.s. I have a  Kanji dictionary sitting right here.....but, it does me little good since I don't really speak the language.

BE CAREFUL GETTING A TATTOO OF KANJI.  I always hear japanese people making fun of westerners who get kanji tattoo's because the meaning is usually wrong or it might even say something funny!

Ian DeBow wrote:
BE CAREFUL GETTING A TATTOO OF KANJI.  I always hear japanese people making fun of westerners who get kanji tattoo's because the meaning is usually wrong or it might even say something funny!

This is exactly why I am doing research first. I will try yo draw out the symbol I have in mind and post it here as soon as possible.

Glamour Boulevard wrote:
I think an easier way to explain it is, have you ever seen that square edge zig zag like border on egyption or roman designs? It is something like a section of that turned into a mirror image of itself.

I have no idea what the symbol you're looking for is, but what you've described above is called a frieze.  Maybe that will help in your google search.